The educative purpose of Higher Education for human and social development in the context of globalization

Globalization presents a particularly challenging context for re-examining the educative purpose of higher education for human, community and social development. In the very first place, development itself is rarely explicitly claimed as a deliberate focus of most institutions of higher education. G...

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Autor: Bawden, Richard
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2008
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
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Ensenyament universitari
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spelling The educative purpose of Higher Education for human and social development in the context of globalizationBawden, RichardEducation, HigherEnsenyament universitariÀrees temàtiques de la UPC::Ensenyament i aprenentatge::Ensenyament universitariGlobalization presents a particularly challenging context for re-examining the educative purpose of higher education for human, community and social development. In the very first place, development itself is rarely explicitly claimed as a deliberate focus of most institutions of higher education. Given that the fundamental purpose of higher education is intellectual and moral development, this is not only a very strange stance but also one that is increasingly problematic and indeed ethically indefensible. In the face of the complexities of this late modern age, where ‘bads’ as well as ‘goods’ are circulating the globe with everincreasing frequency and causing ever-more destructive impacts on nature and society alike, it is becoming glaringly obvious that new ways of ‘seeing’ the world and ‘dealing’ with issues in it are urgently needed if sustainable futures for societies are to be achieved across the globe. If, as the substantive argument in this chapter holds, we humans have become victims of our own paradigmatic inadequacies in a manner that now threatens the very sustainability of life on earth, then higher education is dutybound to do all it can to transform prevailing epistemic assumptions and to liberate human and social development in the further pursuit of the considered and inclusively responsible life.Peer ReviewedPalgrave MacMillan20082008-01-0120092009-09-16journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501NAhttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_be7fb7dd8ff6fe43info:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/2099/8112reponame:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPCinstname:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)Inglésengopen accesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Spainhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:upcommons.upc.edu:2099/81122026-05-27T15:37:01Z
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title The educative purpose of Higher Education for human and social development in the context of globalization
spellingShingle The educative purpose of Higher Education for human and social development in the context of globalization
Bawden, Richard
Education, Higher
Ensenyament universitari
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Ensenyament i aprenentatge::Ensenyament universitari
title_short The educative purpose of Higher Education for human and social development in the context of globalization
title_full The educative purpose of Higher Education for human and social development in the context of globalization
title_fullStr The educative purpose of Higher Education for human and social development in the context of globalization
title_full_unstemmed The educative purpose of Higher Education for human and social development in the context of globalization
title_sort The educative purpose of Higher Education for human and social development in the context of globalization
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Ensenyament universitari
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Ensenyament i aprenentatge::Ensenyament universitari
topic Education, Higher
Ensenyament universitari
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Ensenyament i aprenentatge::Ensenyament universitari
description Globalization presents a particularly challenging context for re-examining the educative purpose of higher education for human, community and social development. In the very first place, development itself is rarely explicitly claimed as a deliberate focus of most institutions of higher education. Given that the fundamental purpose of higher education is intellectual and moral development, this is not only a very strange stance but also one that is increasingly problematic and indeed ethically indefensible. In the face of the complexities of this late modern age, where ‘bads’ as well as ‘goods’ are circulating the globe with everincreasing frequency and causing ever-more destructive impacts on nature and society alike, it is becoming glaringly obvious that new ways of ‘seeing’ the world and ‘dealing’ with issues in it are urgently needed if sustainable futures for societies are to be achieved across the globe. If, as the substantive argument in this chapter holds, we humans have become victims of our own paradigmatic inadequacies in a manner that now threatens the very sustainability of life on earth, then higher education is dutybound to do all it can to transform prevailing epistemic assumptions and to liberate human and social development in the further pursuit of the considered and inclusively responsible life.
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